Re: Network problems

On Monday 08 May 2006 06:56, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > On Mon, 08 May 2006 06:45:21 -0400, dave feustel wrote: > >which I won't bother you with. > > Promise? > > Please, pretty please? Quoting out of context only makes things worse. > From the land "down under&

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

On Monday 08 May 2006 07:09, Jason Dixon wrote: > On May 8, 2006, at 6:45 AM, dave feustel wrote: > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:35, Jason Dixon wrote: > >> I assumed that you would be bright enough to use Google to understand > >> the purpose of kio (virtual file system l

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:35, Jason Dixon wrote: > On May 7, 2006, at 11:18 AM, dave feustel wrote: > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:53, Jason Dixon wrote: > >> On May 7, 2006, at 10:38 AM, dave feustel wrote: > >>> After running kde on 3.9 I found the following error m

Re: Network problems

On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:29, Jason Dixon wrote: > >> So where are the "severe network problems" you allude to? > > > > Konqueror is unusable this morning because almost no web accesses > > other than those to my local webpages are completing. > > So provide troubleshooting examples (e.g., tcpdump)

Re: Network problems

On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:16, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 07/05/06, dave feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just upgraded to 3.9 yesterday and today I am having > > severe network problems. This has been happening for the > > past week, but is now much w

OpenBSD Mentors?

Is there anyone who would be willing to mentor me wrt OpenBSD (ie receive and answer my OpenBSD questions off-list)? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:16, D. E. Evans wrote: > The question is, if I am not doing anything with those files, >then why is kio accessing them? > > Why are you repeating your question when you've already been > answered? OK I didn't get it the first time. What was the answer? Thanks, Dave

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

Keep in mind the applications you will be running, and whether they >need ICCCM or NetWM (EWMH) hints, or other dependencies for >certain functions the ports system may not automatically provide. Dave Feustel http://www.mindspring.com/~dfeustel

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:55, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 07/05/06, dave feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After running kde on 3.9 I found the following error messages in the kde > > error log: > > > > kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can&

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:53, Jason Dixon wrote: > On May 7, 2006, at 10:38 AM, dave feustel wrote: > > After running kde on 3.9 I found the following error messages in > > the kde error > > log: > > > > kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't ha

Re: Network problems

On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:28, Jason Dixon wrote: > On May 7, 2006, at 9:21 AM, dave feustel wrote: > > I just upgraded to 3.9 yesterday and today I am having > > severe network problems. This has been happening for the > > past week, but is now much worse. Browser request

kde: kio accessing files in /etc

KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/exports' Why would kio access files in /etc? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Network problems

ns a local address of 192.168.1.47 to my computer. The modem has address 192.168.1.1. Here is some sample console log showing the ping and traceroute problems. I called Verizon technical support, but it is useless. Any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks, Dave Feustel = /hom

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

On Friday 05 May 2006 15:30, Bob Beck wrote: > > How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of > > them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while > > others are aroud you watching your screen? If you are using KDE windows, there is a program called kwallet

Re: /dev/rst[01] Question

On Friday 05 May 2006 13:21, Greg Thomas wrote: > Someone has cracked your system through a remote KDE exploit Well! THAT certainly did not take long! 3.9 has been installed on my computer for less than 24 hours. Must be that newly discovered X-windows bug. :-) 3.9 seems to run great though. KDE

/dev/rst[01] Question

I have just installed OpenBSD 3.9 and I am running into some strangeness. What are the devices /dev/rst[01]used for? Thanks, Dave

Re: parallel port application

nual documents the programming interface completely. www.saelig.com www.elexol.com Dave Feustel

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

to make any sense out of. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: (PC video card memory aperture !=0) =>OS Rootability?

On Monday 01 May 2006 21:00, mcb, inc. wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > Below is a comment about X-Windows security sent to me > > by a person with a lot of experience in computer security: > > === > > Dave, > > > > X-Wind

Re: Using OpenBSD article in 'The Jem Report'

On Monday 01 May 2006 10:48, Kurt Miller wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:56 pm, Dave Feustel wrote: > > This is a very well written article for new users of OpenBSD: > > > > http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/ > > > > One question I have:

Re: (PC video card memory aperture !=0) =>OS Rootability?

X-Windows security problem on OpenBSD? Thanks Dave Feustel

(PC video card memory aperture !=0) =>OS Rootability?

ell? What changes would have to be made to PC hardware architecture to plug the security holes Loic has identified? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: Using OpenBSD article in 'The Jem Report'

but now I am getting interested in using it. I probably will try installing it sometime after I get a newer and (much) faster computer with a AMD revision F cpu in it. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Using OpenBSD article in 'The Jem Report'

This is a very well written article for new users of OpenBSD: http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/ One question I have: Is the description in the article of what's required to install Java on OpenBSD correct? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get r

OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

heard that. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: DHCP range question

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 19:54, Peter Bako wrote: > A question to the DHCP gods Here is a handy reference by a couple of dhcp gods which I have found handy more than once: :-) http://www.dhcp-handbook.com/ Dave Feustel > Within the dhcpd.conf file, if I have a defined range an

Re: Problem Compiling Stevens' Socket Source Code

I have uploaded to http://dfeustel.home.mindspring.com/unp-config.h a version of config.h that allows successful compilation of ~98% of the Stevens source files. Let me know of how to fix errors and I will update the file. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "los

How will OpenBSD Defend against Virtual Rootkits?

This question comes to mind as a result of my reading just now VM Rootkits: The Next Big Threat? By Ryan Naraine March 10, 2006 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,193,00.asp Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, le

Re: Problem Compiling Stevens' Socket Source Code

rrently am tweaking config.h by hand trying to get rid of the compile errors caused by the bad data put in that file by configure. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

re Problem Compiling Stevens' Socket Source Code

I wrote previously: > I have downloaded the source code accompanying > Stevens' book _Advanced Network Programming > - The Socket Programming API, vol 1, 3rd ed. I forgot to mention that the souce code tar ball is available at http://www.unpbook.com/src.html. Thanks, Dave Feust

Problem Compiling Stevens' Socket Source Code

configure goes wrong. Is there a simple way to run or fix ./configure so that the config.h generated by configure reflects the actual content of openbsd include files and subsequent compiles of Stevens' source work? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lo

Anyone Interested in Programmable AMD Coprocessors?

If Yes, Here You Go: http://www.drccomputer.com/pages/products.html I would get one of these if I could afford it. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: Virtualization of OpenBSD 3.9 on Xen

On Friday 21 April 2006 11:10, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Saturday 15 April 2006 17:53, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:39:10 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > >> > >>>AMD Pacif

ethernet-based video server recommendations

Can anyone recommend brands of video servers (for composite video cameras) that can be initialized and used without Java, Javascript, ActiveX, or any windows software? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, le

Firewire

What is the current outlook for OpenBSD support of Firewire? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

y a new system, boot problems should become moot. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something is very confused. > I do not believe an existing 'a' partition (dos). I bought the disk at Best Buy and copied a few files from /home/daf to test the disk. The files were copied to the usb-connected disk and stored in the fat fil

Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

is post. So is it possible to install 3.9 on an external usb drive and then to boot from that drive? Is the default 32 offset for a and b partitions on the usb drive correct? (I don't think so, but I am asking anyways since I have not used usb hard drives with OpenBSD before). Thanks, Dave Feu

3.9 packages

I did not find them at the mirror I checked. Will they be available for download prior to May 1st? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: Motion Jpeg Video on OpenBSD

followup: Jacob Meuser suggested using ffplay from the ffmjpeg package. I installed ffmjpeg-20050413.tgz from the 3.8 package collection and ffplay does in fact play video from my ethernet-connected video camera. Dave Feustel

problem building xine-lib on 3.8

o 'BREG' in the source code. google 'xibe-lib breg openbsd' returns indications of a problem with fPIC, but the messages are from 2003. Can this be made to work with 3.8 or 3.9? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

kmplayer no longer in packages

I see that kde kmplayer was dropped from i386 packages as of 3.7. Does anyone remember why that happened? Is there any way now to play mjpeg files from within Konqueror? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, le

Intel doc paralyses both xpdf and kpdf at page 16

Both programs freeze and stop responding when I attempt to display page 16 of the doc. Kill -9 seems to be the only way to exit. xpdf is version 3.00p5 Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

usb peripheral device support

restricting my search to webcams with an ethernet interface and a builtin webserver. I have found one such camera at Hawkingtech.com. Does anyone recommend any other ethernet-interfaced webcams? Thanks, Dave Feustel Dave Feustel http://www.mindspring.com/~dfeustel

Boost

Has anyone successfully compiled the Boost libraries (read aboutthem at boost.org) on OpenBSD 3.8 or 3.9? Thanks, Dave Feustel Dave Feustel http://www.mindspring.com/~dfeustel

Re: PF or BPF

On Monday 13 February 2006 21:25, Damien Miller wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > Marco, > > > > I would like to add that I appreciate the work you and the rest of the > > crew are doing to develop OpenBSD. > > Please show your apprecia

Re: PF or BPF

Marco, I would like to add that I appreciate the work you and the rest of the crew are doing to develop OpenBSD. On Monday 13 February 2006 19:36, Marco Peereboom wrote: > http://www.oxide.org/cvs/tedu.html > Commit Statistics: > > Total: 864 > src: 834 (96.528%) > ports: 6 (0.694%) > www:

Re: PF or BPF

tml > Commit Statistics: > > Total: 864 > src: 834 (96.528%) > ports: 6 (0.694%) > www: 24 (2.778%) > Total Days: 1095 > Average per day: 0.789 > Oldest: Tue Jan 28 16:00:45 MST 2003 > Newest: Sat Jan 28 00:27:38 MST 2006 > > Dave Feustel: > Commit St

Re: PF or BPF

it or go do something else that won't upset you. Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: PF or BPF

On Monday 13 February 2006 13:51, dereck wrote: > This is getting ridiculous! The guy said he was under > attack.(!) What is the point of a _misc_ list anyway? > He's not clogging the dev list! > > The responses here are totally out of line. Haven't > any of you guys EVER had a desperate situa

Re: PF or BPF

On Monday 13 February 2006 12:45, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 2/13/06, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What can BPF do that PF can not? > > different things. OK, I'll bite. Such as? (this might be a loong, drawnout thread, but I've got time :-)) -- Lose,

PF or BPF

What can BPF do that PF can not? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: X11 Demo programs

On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > [snip] > > Well, I'm lazy, so I let pf drop all unsolicited incoming > > traffic. Works Great! > > Lets me experiment with my system in peace and safety. > > Not really. >

Re: X11 Demo programs

On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:28, Grumpy wrote: > > Damn! FedGov agencies must LOVE X11! My slogan is now 'block in all'! > > I'm looking forward to your slogan being ``I'll keep my mouth shut''. > > Grumpy Please hold your breath! :-)) -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the wei

Re: X11 Demo programs

On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:06, Mats O Jansson wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > The source and OpenBSD executables for five X11 demo programs > > is now available at http://dfeustel.home.mindspring.com/e-files.zip. > > The programs are xkey, xspy,

Re: X11 Demo programs

On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:03, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:23:06PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > I got one of these programs > > to log kde konsole keystrokes to a different user login running in > > console mode after I ran xhost

X11 Demo programs

sound features out of the OpenBSD version of the program to get it to compile since I never use sound effects on my computer. Documentation of these programs is sparse, but adequate to run the programs. Have Fun, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight&q

Re: Sudo

On Saturday 11 February 2006 12:17, Steve Tornio wrote: > man sudoers Thanks to all who replied. I will try hard to be more thorough in the future. Dave -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: Sudo

On Saturday 11 February 2006 11:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > man sudo for starters. > (actually that's quite enough even for a noob like me) > (even a very out of date linux is enough) > sheesh Actually --with-tickets is not mentioned in sudo. (I was sent '--with-tickets' info off-list by a help

Re: X11 exploit info

to explain things by email. Dave > - > Roman > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dave Feustel > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:04 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: X11 exploit info > >

Re: Sudo

On Saturday 11 February 2006 10:42, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > I don't know whether this is or would be considered as a bug, > > or whether it is generally known, but sudo, when successfully > > invoked with a passwo

Sudo

I don't know whether this is or would be considered as a bug, or whether it is generally known, but sudo, when successfully invoked with a password in one shell, becomes active in all shells of that user for the timed duration. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of,

X11 exploit info

your graphical desktop environment, and you need to be aware of its security model. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Pet-grub.com a cia front?

Tonight, looking for info on cat food, I may have found a cia front company(Just Kidding!!!). When I enter pet-grub.com in the Konqueror location bar, Konqueror is redirected to https://comm.cia.gov/cgi/comment_form.cgi before the webpage for pet-grub.com is fully loaded. This so far (6 times) is

Strange xauth entry

I found the entry 10.0.3.15:0 in my .Xauthority file via the xauth list command. Assuming that I did not add that entry to the file, how might it have been added? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, fr

Re: OpenBSD security could be tightened up easily

Just for reference, here is the original post in this thread, which for some reason, I do not find in the reverse misc archive. --- OpenBSD security could be tightened up easily Date: 2006-02-05 08:09 From: Dave Feustel <[EM

Re: OpenBSD security could be tightened up easily

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 13:16, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 2/5/06, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, all x11 and kde sockets are created with permissions up to and > > including 777 that can be restricted with no loss of functionality. I now > > and h

OpenBSD security could be tightened up easily

which I build everything else. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: httpd question - solved

On Saturday 04 February 2006 16:57, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > I am now starting httpd at boot. It reports that it cannot > > determine the fully qualified domain name and listens to > > only 127.0.0.1. How can I set the i

httpd question

I am now starting httpd at boot. It reports that it cannot determine the fully qualified domain name and listens to only 127.0.0.1. How can I set the ip address to which httpd listens to the address assigned to me by verizon's dhcp server? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss

pf question - solved

I found the solution in the pf faq: skip lo0. This rule is not mentioned in Artymiak's book which I had been reading. I will now read the complete pf faq to see what I have not been aware of. Dave Feustel

pf question

his, (see ruleset below) but nothing comes back even to my browser running on the same computer. What pf rule(s) do I have to change/add to permit my browser and others on the internet to access the web server? Thanks, Dave Feustel ===current pf ruleset ext_if = &qu

Port Question

PF works GREAT! Here is a list of ports that have had data sent to them today. The 2nd number is the number of packets dropped. Is there anything in the list that I should pay particular attention to? Thanks, Dave Feustel 23 104 telnet 23/udp Telnet 31 3 msg-auth 31/udp MSG Authentication 34 4

Re: Securia Rates OpenBSD

On Monday 23 January 2006 18:37, Bill wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:08:00 -0500 > Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > > > Securia gives OpenBSD a pretty nice security rating at > > http://secunia.com/product/100/ > > Hi Dave, > > I did not see

Re: Securia Rates OpenBSD

On Monday 23 January 2006 18:41, eric wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:08:00 -0500, Dave Feustel proclaimed... > > > Securia gives OpenBSD a pretty nice security rating at > > http://secunia.com/product/100/ > > Shouldn't this go to advocacy@ ? That did not occu

Securia Rates OpenBSD

Securia gives OpenBSD a pretty nice security rating at http://secunia.com/product/100/ -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

/dev permissions question

I notice that the permissions on /dev/ttyp* are reset to 666 on boot, but that the permissions on /dev/ptyp* are not altered. Is there a reason for the differential treatment of the two groups of devices? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight&q

Re: ssh to computer with variable ip address

On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:14, Peter Philipp wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:45:35AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > I now have a working ssh connection to a computer on > > my subnet by using the (hardwired) ip address in the > > known_hosts file. How can ssh be

ssh to computer with variable ip address

I now have a working ssh connection to a computer on my subnet by using the (hardwired) ip address in the known_hosts file. How can ssh be used to connect to a computer with a (variable) dhcp-assigned ip address, given that the ip address can change at any time? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose

Re: rc.conf.local question

On Friday 13 January 2006 07:15, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hello! > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:36:14PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > >[...] > > >I also am using dhcp to get an ip address from verizon when I boot up. > > As long as you serve your own dhcp on diffe

Re: rc.conf.local question

On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:28, Alexander Hall wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > I added the statement dchpd_flags="-d sis0 sis1 sis2 sis3" to rc.conf.local, > > but dhcpd is not started at bootup. Is something else needed to get > > dhcpd started automatical

Re: rc.conf.local question

On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:13, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > I added the statement dchpd_flags="-d sis0 sis1 sis2 sis3" to > > rc.conf.local, > > but dhcpd is not started at bootup. Is something else needed to g

rc.conf.local question

I added the statement dchpd_flags="-d sis0 sis1 sis2 sis3" to rc.conf.local, but dhcpd is not started at bootup. Is something else needed to get dhcpd started automatically? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not

Re: "DadOS" - sys shutdown with XDM

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 02:36, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:50, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: "DadOS" - sys shutdown with XDM

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 18:20, J.C. Roberts wrote: > I'm not really a KDE user. Heck, I even resist installing X11 whenever > possible. I am getting ever closer to adopting your point of view re X11 and KDE. -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight,

Re: "DadOS" - sys shutdown with XDM

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:50, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > > > The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting > > > permission

Re: "DadOS" - sys shutdown with XDM

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: > The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting > permissions whenever possible. Check the ownership/privileges on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 after you start kde or Xorg. Also check the ownership/privileges on the /dev/[pt]typ* p

dhcpd question

top with a NAT rule. What rule(s) do I need to add to pf.conf to give the laptop internet access via the desktop? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Skull & Bones cursor in KDE

Is sudden appearance of a skull & bones cursor on the kde desktop associated with any exploits against kde? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

getmail question

pop3 mail client? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: pf question

On Thursday 29 December 2005 20:27, David Higgs wrote: > You're either the victim of a truncated display or lacking in > fundamental DNS knowledge. I definitely lack knowledge of DNS right now. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] host 5.191.160.66 > Host 66.160.191.5.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > [EMAI

Re: pf question

On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:32, eric wrote: > Re: pf question I just noticed that it's 5.0.0.0/8, not 5.0.0.0/24. -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: pf question

: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:38:22 -0500, Dave Feustel proclaimed... > > > Has anyone on the list experience with using pf to > > block ip addresses in the iana reserved ip address ranges list? > > I don't think any of us have ever thought of that. > > Oh wa

pf question

Has anyone on the list experience with using pf to block ip addresses in the iana reserved ip address ranges list? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

Re: A Little Tip for OpenBSD Users of KDE

Marc Espie and Dirk at kde have acknowledged the security problem OpenBSD has with kde kgrantpty. The problem with /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 addressed by the 2003 paper on XFree86 still exists today with Xorg. If the rest of you fail to see the problem, even when the evidence is available to you on your

Re: A Little Tip for OpenBSD Users of KDE

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 11:05, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > by KDE are root-owned and world rw. There is also a problem with the socket > > /tmp/.X11-unix/X0. This is documented on the web and even in an OpenBSD > > p

Re: A Little Tip for OpenBSD Users of KDE

On Monday 26 December 2005 22:12, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:39:22 -0500, Dave Feustel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Don't use sudo in any konsole session. > > Dave, > > I don't think you're nuts but the fear mongeri

A Little Tip for OpenBSD Users of KDE

Don't use sudo in any konsole session. -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"

X connection server shutdown question

How can I get the message "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) in my Xorg log while kde is still running and I am the the only user on the system? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tigh

pkg_delete questions

Is there a simple way to delete kde and xorg other than to reinstall OpenBSD without those packages? Is there a way to make sure tha pkg_add installs nothing that uses graphics packages (ie kde or Xorg) is to be installed, even if requested? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss

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